(Photo by Wesley Elsberry)

Daniel S. Levine
Professor of Psychology

Room 414, Life Sciences Bldg.
Phone: (817) 272-3598
Email: levine@uta.edu

Member of Board of Governors, International Neural Network Society (INNS); was President in 1998. Founding member of Executive Committee of Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics (MIND), a Dallas-Fort Worth area organization active since 1987 and possibly the oldest neural network organization in the world.

Program Chair for International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'05), Montreal, August 1-4, 2005

Description of Research

Neural networks; decision making under risk; models of frontal lobe function; models of cognitive-emotional interactions; theories of caring and uncaring behavior.

Titles of Current Laboratory Experiments:

Effects of Presentation Mode and Method of Preference Elicitation on Choices Between Gambles

The Effect of Coffee on Cognitive Function and Rational and Irrational Responses

Influence of Dispositional Risk Attraction on Choices Between Gambles and Sure Gains or Losses

Representative Publications

Online Books

Levine, D.S., Explorations in Common Sense and Common Nonsense, 1998 [Link to Book]

Books

Levine, D.S., Introduction to Neural and Cognitive Modeling, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000 [Synopsis of Book]

Levine, D.S., Brown, V.R., & Shirey, T. (Editors), Oscillations in Neural Systems, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000

Parks, R.W., Levine, D.S., & Long, D.L. (Editors), Fundamentals of Neural Network Modeling: Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT Press, 1998

Levine, D.S., & Elsberry, W.R. (Editors), Optimality in Biological and Artificial Networks? Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997

Levine, D.S., & Aparicio, M. IV (Editors), Neural Networks for Knowledge Representation and Inference, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994

Levine, D.S., & Leven, S.J. (Editors), Motivation, Emotion, and Goal Direction in Neural Networks, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992

Book Chapters

Levine, D.S., How does the brain create, change, and selectively override its rules of conduct? In R. Kozma & L. Perlovsky (Eds.), Neurodynamics of Higher-level Cognition and Consciousness. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2007 [Text of Chapter]

Published Articles

Levine, D.S. (2005). Angels, devils, and censors in the brain. ComPlexus, 2, 35-59. [Published Text]
[Simplexus Text With Translation Changes Shown]

Levine, D.S., Jani, N.G., & Gilbert, D.G. (2003). Modeling the effects of nicotine on a continuous performance task. Neurocomputing, 52-54, 573-582 [Full Text]

Eisler, R., & Levine, D.S. (2002). Nurture, nature, and caring: We are not prisoners of our genes. Brain and Mind, 3, 9-52 [Full Text]

Levine, D.S., Introduction to the Special Issue on Brain Development and Caring Behavior, Brain and Mind, 3, 1-7 [Full Text]

Jani, N.G., & Levine, D.S. (2000). A neural network theory of proportional analogy making. Neural Networks, 13, 149-183 [Full Text]

Bapi, R.S., & Levine, D.S. (1997). Modeling the role of the frontal lobes in sequential performance. II. Classification of sequences. Neural Network World, 1/97, 3-28 [Abstract]

Levine, D.S. (1996). Modeling dysfunction of the prefrontal executive system. In E. Ruppin, R. Berndt, & J. Reggia (Eds.), Neural Modeling of Brain Disorders (pp. 413-439). Singapore: World Scientific [Abstract]

Leven, S.J., & Levine, D.S. (1996). Multiattribute decision making in context: A dynamic neural network methodology. Cognitive Science, 20, 271-299 [Abstract] [Full Text] 

Levine, D.S., & Leven, S.J. (1995). Of mice and networks: Connectionist dynamics of intention versus action. In F. D. Abraham & A. Gilgen (Eds.), Chaos Theory in Psychology (pp.221-231). Westport, CT: Greenwood [No Abstract]

Levine, D.S. (1994). Steps toward a neural theory of self-actualization. World Congress on Neural Networks, San Diego, June, 1994 (Vol. 1, pp. 215-220). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates [Abstract] [Full Text]

Bapi, R.S., & Levine, D.S. (1994). Modeling the role of the frontal lobes in sequential performance. I. Basic structure and primacy effects. Neural Networks, 7, 1167-1180 [Abstract]

Levine, D.S., & Parks, R.W. (1992). Frontal lesion effects on verbal fluency in a network model. IJCNN International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Baltimore, MD, June 7-11, 1992 (Vol. II, pp. 39-44). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE [Abstract]

Levine, D.S., & Prueitt, P.S. (1989). Modeling some effects of frontal lobe damage: Novelty and perseveration. Neural Networks, 2, 103-116 [Abstract] [Full Text]

Grossberg, S., & Levine, D.S. (1987). Neural dynamics of attentionally modulated Pavlovian conditioning: Blocking, interstimulus interval, and secondary reinforcement. Applied Optics, 26, 5015-5030 [Abstract]

Non-Technical Articles

We Are Not Prisoners of Our Brains (with Riane Eisler and Sam Leven). Paper presented at the International Congress on Universal Values and the Future of Society, São Paulo, September, 2001. 

Genetics is No Excuse. Sermon at First Jefferson Unitarian Universalist Church, Fort Worth, September 9, 2001.

What Are Neural Networks, and What Can They Contribute to Psychology? Psychline, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 23-30, 1999. 

Descartes, Damasio, and Darwin: a Tragedy of Errors and a Comedy of Truths. Psychline, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 30-31, 1998. 

Cognitive Dissonance, Halo Effects, and the Self-esteem Trap. Psychline, Vol. 2, No. 3, 25-26, 1998.

Sex and Human Values. Review of Riane Eisler, Sacred Pleasure (Harper San Francisco, 1995). Contemporary Psychology, 42, 1118-1119, 1997. 

Math Phobia and Homophobia: Two Sides of the Same Coin? Sermon at First Jefferson Unitarian Universalist Church, Fort Worth, August 31, 1997. 

What Can Academic Psychology Contribute to Psychotherapy? Psychline, Vol. 1, No. 2, 18-19, 1996.

An Alternative Creation Myth. Sermon at First Jefferson Unitarian Universalist Church, Fort Worth, July 19, 1992.